TODAY IS National Disc Jockey Day

QUOTE
"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."
- Malcolm Forbes

FACT
A camel can lose up to 30% of its body weight in perspiration and continue to cross the desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12% of body weight.

HISTORY
1885 - L.A. Thompson of Coney Island, New York patented the roller coaster. His coaster was 450 feet long, with a highest drop of 30 feet.

1961 - John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States. He was elected by the closest vote ever and was the youngest presidential nominee elected.

1981 - Ronald Reagan became president of the United States at the age of 69 and 349 days, the oldest president to take office.

2007 – A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.